i wasn't looking for this

[from_scratch]

This is a successor to call me maybe and trade my soul for a wish, which were getting crowded.

with Emily (Maggie)

with Alex (ErinFlight)

with Destin (Rockeye)

with Nick (Rockeye)

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[from_scratch]

"Good for her."

[iamnotpolaris]

"She really did have good reasons, though, she extremely does not just go around punching people."

[from_scratch]

"You spend a lot of energy defending your sister. I'm not even freaking out about the punching people thing, here."

[iamnotpolaris]

"I have actually had more consistent negative reactions to the punching thing than to the telepathy."

[from_scratch]

"It's not great, an unluckily placed sock in the face can cause brain damage, but it won't usually."

[iamnotpolaris]

"The part people react worse to is 'is known to do it.' Edie has never lashed out with her mind because she was angry."

[from_scratch]

"Never in her life?"

[iamnotpolaris]

"Nnnnot since we were little enough she couldn't do anything with it."

[from_scratch]

"Telepathic toddler. Yikes."

[iamnotpolaris]

"Telepathic fetus."

[from_scratch]

"You had mentioned that. I think the toddler version is scarier. To the best of my knowledge fetuses are less insistent about wanting things and having emotional states."

[iamnotpolaris]

"I don't know about wanting things, but she definitely had emotions."

[from_scratch]

"Well, I haven't had a lot of close contact with fetuses in my lifetime, so perhaps I'm wrong."

[iamnotpolaris]

"To be fair, we don't really have a large enough sample size to know if it's universal."

[from_scratch]

"But you did say there were other telepaths; were they not so as fetuses?"

[iamnotpolaris]

"I don't know. Probably not. I had my magnetism as a fetus, and that's definitely abnormal."

[from_scratch]

"...Sound potentially messy."

[iamnotpolaris]

"Think steel pennies and bobby pins stuck to the outside of someone's stomach. I didn't have control over it at the time."

[from_scratch]

"Okay, inconvenient but not messy."

[iamnotpolaris]

"Apparently it was more adorable than inconvenient. But yes, a bit inconvenient."

[from_scratch]

"No puncture wounds or bizarre anemia, sounds all right to me."

[iamnotpolaris]

"I can't even do anything with blood now, let alone when I was that little."

[from_scratch]

"It's the sort of thing you get better at over time?"

[iamnotpolaris]

"Yeah. The iron in blood is really, really small. You have to get very fine control before you can do anything with it."

[from_scratch]

"Fair enough."